Name U-62 Laid down 22 June 1915 Launched 2 August 1916 | Ordered 6 October 1914 Commissioned 30 December 1916 Construction started 22 June 1915 Draft 3.79 m | |
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Fate 22 November - Surrendered. Broken up at Bo'ness in 1919-20 | ||
SM U-62 was one of the 329 submarines serving in the Imperial German Navy in World War I. U-62 was engaged in the naval warfare and took part in the First Battle of the Atlantic.
On 8 March 1917, SM U-62 sank the coal freighter Storstad, the ship that had rammed and sunk the RMS Empress of Ireland ocean liner in one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in modern history.
On 7 August 1918, she torpedoed the French armoured cruiser Dupetit-Thouars, which sank with the loss of 13 of her crew.
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